We envision available knowledge and education applied to disaster prevention everywhere, and every school a safe school.

Welcome to COGSSDPE!

COGSSDPE Network Membership is open to all. Please join and set up your own profile on the "My Page" tab above.

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Enjoy! Share and contribute what you're thinking and doing to improve disaster prevention and safety education in schools and your community!

Active Membership Defined

Active Individual membership is limited to those who participate actively in any one of the Coalition’s Workgroups, Task Teams or Ad Hoc Committees for at least 6 months in the course of any 1-year period.

Active Members are expected to help in setting workgroup and committee objectives and contributing to the realization of these objectives.

Working groups have access to their own closed discussion fora in addition to the public ones listed in "Groups". They elect their co-chairs who serve on the COGSSDPE Steering Committee.

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Dear Fellow COGSS Members,It's good to have all 541 of us have voluntarily expressed interest in school safety... and come together in one place. Alas, we're all so busy that we've left this site very underutilized... Many of us have been pushing and prodding from wherever we are in the world, to promote school safety, and the results have been remarkably positive in terms of a foot in the door, as far as integration of school safety into the 2015-2030 agendas for SDGs as well as the Sendai…See More